The Amendments
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This plan proposed representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This war between Britain and France left Britain deeply in debt and led to new colonial taxes.
What is the French and Indian War?
He warned against permanent alliances in his Farewell Address.
Who is George Washington?
This abolitionist novel, published in 1852, intensified sectional tensions by portraying the human costs of slavery to a mass Northern audience.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued forcefully for independence.
What is Common Sense?
Hamilton’s proposal for this institution became a major constitutional controversy during Washington’s administration.
What is the First Bank of the United States?
This congressional measure intensified sectional conflict by banning slavery north of latitude 36°30′ in the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Progressive Era amendment established the direct election of U.S. senators, reducing the influence of political machines and state legislatures.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
This first national government, ratified in 1781, deliberately created a weak central authority because Americans feared concentrated power.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This battle convinced France to openly support the American cause.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This warned European powers against future colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This political party emerged in the mid-1850s largely from the collapse of the Whig Party and opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Republican Party?
This amendment, ratified in 1964, prohibited the use of poll taxes in federal elections and became a significant tool in expanding voting rights.
What is the Twenty-Fourth Amendment?
This 1786 uprising of indebted Massachusetts farmers convinced many political leaders that the Articles government was too weak to maintain order.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This 1774 meeting brought together delegates from 12 colonies to coordinate resistance to Britain.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This Supreme Court decision established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This senator from Illinois proposed legislation in 1854 that repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened western territories to popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
Ratified in 1971 during the Vietnam era, this amendment reflected the argument that citizens old enough to be drafted should also be able to vote.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
This 1787 ordinance prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River and established a pathway for territorial statehood.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This 1763 British proclamation sought to prevent settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This president was associated with the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This treaty with Spain secured navigation rights on the Mississippi River.
What is Pinckney’s Treaty?